Like any good modern movie franchise, the James Bond series has spawned a healthy number of video games. Fans generally agree the best is GoldenEye, originally for the Nintendo 64. Several years earlier, Bond had his first video game outing in this title, loosely based on three of his films: Diamonds Are Forever, Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me. Interestingly, publisher Parker Brothers first intended to make a game out of the then-latest Bond movie, Octopussy, and even went so far as to list the game in their 1983 catalog. Perhaps worried about phone calls from angry parents over the title, Octopussy was eventually replaced by the trio of movies seen in the final product. Parker Brothers then expanded their coverage, offering the game not only for the originally-promised Atari 2600 and Intellivision consoles, but also for the Atari 5200, the ColecoVision and several 8-bit home computers. These other editions even pulled a fourth movie into the mix, For Your Eyes Only.
Despite the ambitious scope, James Bond 007 did not make much of an impact on any console, and critics were generally unimpressed. The game would prove to be Parker Brothers' only James Bond effort before the company exited the video game industry altogether. Today, James Bond 007 is interesting for having introduced Bond to video games, if not really much else.